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eyes rove

idiom

literary
used to say that a person is looking all around a place for something
His eyes roved the room in search of her.

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“Eyes rove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyes%20rove. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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